Greg Gandrud

Greg Gandrud (1961-) was Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party from 24 February 2019.

Biography
Greg Gandrud was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 and raised in Manhattan Beach, and he settled in Carpinteria in 1987 and founded a financial services corporation. In 1999, he became active in the Santa Barbara County Republican Party as supervisor of its First District, and he was elected its Chairman in 2008 and re-elected in 2010. He was also elected to the Carpinteria City Council in 2002. In 2019, as part of a diversification effort within the California Republican Party, the openly gay Gandrud was elected Vice Chairman under Chairwoman Jessica Patterson.